In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s, set out to create an incandescent light bulb that provided enough light to illuminate a home but would last ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

99% of Edison bulbs are dimmer than standard incandescent ones or regular LEDs, even the improved models these days still do not overcome that issue. If you want the brightest Edison bulbs for your ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

Think back to the last time your home and neighborhood were plunged into darkness. That was Breck Parkman's experience for 10 nights when the 2017 Nuns and Tubbs fires cut power to his Sonoma County ...

his mother an artist — near the West Caldwell laboratory of Thomas Edison, who helped invent and commercialize the ...

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration. During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I ...